The editor of L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora and well known newspaper chronicler and philosopher, analyses actuality through the looking glass of Belonging.
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Belonging to a country is more a matter of heart and vision than of protecting individual rights and interests. Rights are important, of course – but our feeling of belonging is rooted in a common vision of our country, embodied in its symbols, political ideals and great achievements. It is this shared vision that inspires citizens to carry out their obligations from a place of philia – neighborly love – rather than mere duty, and that creates the ties that bind us together in belonging.
Marc Chevrier
When does the rule of law begin to break the social fabric instead of protecting it?
When does the rule of law begin to break the social fabric instead of protecting it?
"Giving othe rs their due may at first appear to be no more than a painful necessity explained by our inescapable interdependence, but if we are to love justice, it must come to be experienced as a loving response to an otherness that we apprehend as beautiful. We must be drawn to an ultimately unrepresentable perfection in our relations to others by our desires, rather than in opposition to them."
Hugh Donald Forbes, about Georges Grant
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